Psalm Vol. 1 - College Press

PSALM THIRTY
PARAPHRASE
PSALM 30
I will praise You, Lord, for You have saved me from my
enemies. You refuse to let them triumph over me.
2 0 Lord my God, I pled with You, and You gave me my
health again.
3 You brought me back from the brink oi the grave, from
death itself, and here I am alive!
4 Oh, sing to Him you saints of His; give thanks to His
holy name.
5 His anger lasts a moment; His favor lasts ifor life!
Weeping may go on all night, but in the morning there is joy.
6, 7 In my prosperity I said, “This is forever; nothing can
stop me now! The Lord has shown me His favor, He has made
me steady as a mountain.’’
Then, Lord, You turned Your face away from me and cut
off Your river of b1essings.l Suddenly my courage was gone;
I was terrified and panic-stricken.
8 I cried to You, 0 Lord; oh, how I pled:
9 “What will You gain, 0 Lord, from killing me? How can
I praise Ylou then to all my lfriends?l
How can my dust in the
grave speak out and tell the world about Your faithfulness?
10 Hear me, Lord ; oh, have pity and help me.”
11 Then He turned my sorrow into joy! He took away my
clothes of mourning and gave me gay and festive garments to
rejoice in
12 So that I might sing glad praises to the Lord instead of
lying iln silence in the grave. 0 Lord my God, I will keep on
thanking You forever !
EXPOSITION
This psalm appears to be so full of Hezekiah, that khe wonder
is, where David can be (found. And yet there is but libtle
unsuited to David’s time, if we had but the biographical details
to identify one or .two more incidents of hi’s life which seem to
be here memorialised. Perowne’s suggestion is good, that the
dedication alluded to in the iascription, was perhaps the dedica-
tion of his own house, “the building of which he seems to have
1,. Implied.
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